Great britain facts and figures

Today is a special day. There are 96 men to every women. Robin and his friends stole money from rich people and gave it to poor people. London has more Indian restaurants than Mumbai or Delhi. In the UK, you can never be more than 70 miles away from the sea.

His name is Robin Hood. The most easterly town is Lowestoft, Suffolk.

There is also a famous movie about this man. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects. No, not green witch - Greenwich. People in Britain who wake in the middle of the night are most likely to do it at 3: The oldest house in the UK is nearly years old and has stone furniture that is still intact.

Despite being a m ft tall structure in the middle of central London, the location of the Post Office Tower was a national secret for years. Die E-Mail wird sicher gleich bei dir sein! That was hard work! Scotland is the home of the Loch Ness monster — or Nessie. But I would like two birthdays, too!

So now the puzzle is finished. The UK has 13 dependant territories like the Falkland Islands. The dragon is a symbol of Wales.

Each part of the UK has a special flag. The number of cars produced has increased by 5. Those hats must be hot in June! There are 60 computers for every people. There are television broadcast stations with 3, repeaters.

The UK is the only country not required to name itself on its postage stamps. Maybe you have seen the letters GMT? This is because the weather is better in June for her special Birthday Parade outside Buckingham Palace, her home in London. This is the south part of Ireland.

A person from Scotland is British and Scottish — but not English. More than one million people in the UK work in call centres. The average Briton hassixth cousins, enough to fill Wembley stadium twice over.

The "keep calm and carry on" slogan was originally dreamt up as a way of preserving morale in the event of a Nazi invasion of Britain.Britain's most popular chocolate bar, the Dairy Milk Today, is sold to 30 countries. Five hundred million are produced each year. Shotgun certificates have been issued to.

Great Britain is made up from England, Scotland and Wales. Great Britain is very often, but incorrectly, used as a synonym for the sovereign state properly known as the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Approximately 20% of all pregnancies in Great Britain (excluding spontaneous miscarriages) currently end in abortion. The highest abortion rates* belong to London (21), Merseyside (20), and Birmingham (20); the lowest abortion rates belong to North Yorkshire (12), Derbyshire (12), and East Anglia (12).

The terms "UK" and "Great Britain" are not interchangeable: the United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland, while Great Britain does not. Of all the countries that celebrate an independence day, 58 are independent of the UK, 26 of France. Get all the key facts about the United Kingdom in one place.

The InterNations expat guide has all the main facts and figures for expats in the UK. The UK is a country in north-western Europe.

It is bordered to the south by the English Channel; to the east by the North Sea; to the west .